2016 Pinot Noir Estate

Overview

Our home grown S.V. Estate Pinot Noir is a true labor of love. The vines are mere steps from the tasting room. Having complete, direct dirt to bottle quality control insures this limited release is a special one.

Tasting Notes

With its ripe yet reserved cherry / berry component and amazing nose and palate full of spice box and vanillin-oak, this wine begs to be paired with ripe cheeses, pancetta-wrapped salmon, duck confit, or almost any variety of meats off the grill. Delicious now, the ’16 S.V. “Estate” Pinot Noir has the balance and tannins to pay handsome dividends if carefully cellared for four to five years.
 

Vinification

The Pinot Noir we picked off various blocks at the home ranch in early September 2016 was of very good quality, with near perfect flavors and acids and deep color. After a cold soak, fermentation began using yeast RC212 in small, open top bins. Manual punchdowns of the cap occurred twice daily prior to pressing and “barreling down” for eleven months aging in small French oak cooperage, twenty-five percent of which was new wood. The wine was bottled in August 2017, allowing a year of bottle age prior to release.

Clones: 667, 777, 115, “Samsonite Chambertin”

Vineyard Sources

Appellation: Santa Clara Valley
Vineyard: Sarah's Estate
Grower: Tim Slater

 

Technical Data

Alcohol: 13.7%

Cooperage: French oak, 25% new, 11 months

Bottling Date: August 2017

Production: 385

2016 Pinot Noir Estate